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C64Studio v3.8 | C64 Studio is a assembly development environment which is dependent on VICE. You can write assembly code and test this with the VICE emulator. Recent changes: Improvements for: Comments, DASM, Files, Pseudo op's, Dependencies, External commands and Images. Added: Symbols/tokens of dependencies and included files are now also updated after successful compile, !warn pseudo op, Binary not operator (!), CHARVERT, COLORVERT, CHARCOLORVERT, COLORCHARVERT, CHARSET and !mediasrc.

Berusky v1.7 - Amiga | Szilárd Biró released a new version of Berusky. Berusky is a logic game based on the puzzle game Sokoban. The game has 120 levels and in each level you must find the five keys and the exit. Changes in this version: Added extra levels from players and double-size mode question at game start.

Commodore Fan Gazette #004 | Commodore Fan Gazette is a pdf Commodore magazine in the Italian language. In this edition: Ready ... Return!, Super Powers A 8 BIT!, Emulate all Amiga's, AmiBridge, Darkness, C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition, Commando Arcade, TETRIS, VICE Squad, PowerGlove, Viccy Bird, Flappy Bird, Blitz, 1541 Ultimate II, Game Parade, You go ON STAGE! and CommVex 2014.

Amiga Forum #010 | Amiga Forum is a Swedish (printed) magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News from SUGA, Assembler for beginners, Game covers, Amiga OS 4 in WinUAE, Commodore's choice of design for the Amiga, Amiga USB keyboard, Games: Colonial Conquest II Saga Voxel Bird and Voxelnoid.

Komoda #10 | In this Polish pdf magazine the following articles: Chest of Drawers # 10, Cover Disk # 5, BLOB, Burning Pen 64, Commando Arcade, Kur Peiite Tu Teceji, Cobra Mission, Die Ringe von Copiar, Get to the End, Maze of the Mummy, The Last Hope, Lunar Blitz, Xain D Sieena, Attack of the Megagalactic Cows, Color FoodAlter EgoSuper Cars 4, Every two horns, is not one, I love being a Turtle!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tai Chi Tortoise, Ninja Attack, Mario Bros, Purple Turtles, Skool Daze and Twin balls.

DigiBooster 3 - Amiga | A new version of DigiBooster is available for AmigaOS 3/4 and MorphOS. Digibooster is an traditional tracker with an advanced audio processing engine, and an up-to-date MUI based graphical user interface. Recent changes: Import of basic four track modules and multichannel modules. Auto saving. Improvements for block operations. ARexx commands for loading/importing the module and starting playback. New languages: French and Polish.

FRGCB | FRGCB (Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog) is a new web page that writes about retro games. But the difference is that this blog compares the games between the different computers like the C64, Amiga, MSX, NES, CPC, DOS, etc. The most recent comparisons are: Friday the 13th (Domark, 1985), James Bond 007 (Parker Brothers, 1983), Xeno + Wibstars (A'n'F Software, 1986), Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper (Go!, 1987), Unique Games! - Part 5, Fort Apocalypse (Synapse Software, 1982) and NGOTM: Alter Ego (RetroSouls, 2011).

Best of MorphOS - 05/08-2014 | Best of MorphOS is an pdf news letter for MorphOS user in the English language. In this edition the following: Updates for MorphOS software, new games and reviews, emulators, meetings for MorphOS users and a world map of users and hardware.

C64 Endings | The web page c64endings.co.uk has added new endings of Commodore C64 games. The most recent additions are: Neuronics (Thalion), Oh no! (Silverbird), Penetrator (Melbourne House), Seabase Delta (Firebird), Storbringer (Mastertronic), Sheep vs. Fox (TND), Sergeant Seymour (Codemasters), Skull & Crossbones (Domark), Slug (Alternative Software) and Technocop (Gremlin Graphics).

Cassiopei - C128 | A firmware update for the Cassiopei has been released. This new version supports the C128 in C128 mode including wedge functionality. A major advantage of the C128 is the use of a boot-disk. Now you can use the Cassiopei directly after power-on, no typing required. Also a new version of the Cassiopei manager, a screen resizing bug has been fixed. And off course the manual has been updated with info about the C128.

WHDLoad | WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. New: Turrican Music-Show (Spreadpoint), Music Rip 3 (Spreadpoint), Cracker Journal 13 (Alpha Flight), 4th Dimension 3 (Cryptoburners), Hallucinations and Dreams Preview (Katharsis), Alchemy (Rage), Bandit's Radio (Mad Elks), Megademo (Katharsis) and Epilepsia 1 & 2 (Amnesia). Improved: Scene Talk 1, 2 & 3, Megademo (Katharsis) and Cracker Journal 4 & 12.

Attitude #15 | In this English diskette magazine the following: Editorial, Scene news, News from the groups, IRQ loader, Framemeister, Interviews with BHF/Hoaxers, Radiantx/Panda Des. and Randall/Arise.

AmiMag #03 | AmiMag is a French pdf magazine for the Amiga user. In this edition: News, Amiga facing the PSX and Saturn, The Walker, Learn to master Wordsworth, Uropa2, Max games Public Domain, The Pin-Up and a comic.

VU-sette | Jani was making backups of old turbo-tapes to disk and noticed that the quality was very poor on some tapes. He needed a method to adjust the head alignment and see if the signal was better. He built an analogue VU-Meter inside a Datassette. On Jani's blog you can see the new system.

Disk Image Device - AmigaOS 4 | This is a new version of the program that was made for Amiga OS 3 by Thore Boeckelmann. The supported formats are: adf, adz, bin, ccd, cso, cpr, cue, d64, daa, dax, dmg, dms, dsk, flac, g64, gi, hdf, img, ipf, iso, isz, mdf, mds, nrg, raw, sad, toast, uif, vdi, vmdk, wv and xiso. Recent updates: Improved MDS plugin and Italian catalog. Newer MDS files and improvements for the MDS_OpenImage() function.

FinalBurn Alpha - Amiga | HunoPPC made an AmigaOS 4.1 version of FB Alpha, the arcade emulator. The following hardware platform are supported: Capcom CPS-1, 2 &3, Cave, Data East DEC-0, DEC-8 & DECO IC16, Galaxian, Irem M62, M63, M72, M90 & M92, Kaneko 16, Konami, Neo-Geo, Pacman, PGM, Psikyo 68EC020 & SH-2, Sega System 1, 16 & 18, X-Board, Y-Board, Toaplan, Taito F2, X, Z and others.

Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium | The book Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium is a now available in the on-line stores. The book celebrates the beauty of the greatest home computer ever made; the C64. The focus of the book is on the beautiful loading screens and game images.

Amiga CD32 - RGB modification | RetroGameModz has made a video about the modification of an Amiga CD-32. The modification is an RGB connector at the back-side. During the modification RetroGameModz discovered a few defective capacitors. In the video you can follow the whole repair and the modification.

BetterWB v3.8 | BetterWB is a new workbench pack, like AIAB, Amikit, AmigaSYS, ClassicWB etc. It aims to be an enhancement and an update to AmigaOS 3.1 but without the need of extra hardware. The new programs are: Charmap, Prepcard+, Ned and Freewheel. And there are updates for HardWiz, icon.library, pfs3aio, HDToolBox, WhichAmiga and EnvHandler.

Smokin' Guns - AmigaOS4 | Smokin' Guns is a first-person shooter in the Old West. This game is converted to the Amiga, included weapons created with historically correct information about damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc. Requirements: Fast CPU, 1GB RAM and Warp3D with 128MB RAM.

TED part 2 - Bil Herd | This is the second part of the story about the 30 year old TED chip. The TED chip was used in the Commodore C16, C116, Plus/4 and the 364. Bil Herdwas in charge of the development of these computers and he implemented the TED (Text Editing Device) chip in the design. The TED chip was used for the video, sound, DRAM refresh, timers and keyboard / joystick input.

Boxx - Amiga | Lemming880 made a new game for the Commodore Amiga. The game is a platform game and is made in Backbone. An Amiga A1200 or higher is recommended, but it will work on a A500 at a slower speed. In the game you must collect all coins, kill the enemy and eliminate the boss!

TherapSid | The TherapSid is a music system that can be used to play music with the original SID chip. The features are: Compatible with all SID's, 3 Oscillators, 4 Waveforms per oscillator, Multimode Filter, 35 Knobs, 31 Buttons, 100 Pre-sets, 16 Step Modulator and the system is compatible with the iPad.

NetSurf v3.2 - Amiga 68k | NetSurf is a small but fast web browser for Amiga, RISC OS and Linux. NetSurf supports HTML and CSS: A few examples of the changes in this version are: Added resizeable windows, Internal font scaling, Mobile mode option and a disk cache function.

Sopwiths and Pterrordons - C64 | Anthony Stiller made a new action game for the Commodore C64. The game Sopwiths and Pterrordons is made with the Shoot'Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) and is based on the games 1942 and 1943 but in the prehistoric times. In the game you are a pilot and must shoot down the flying dinosaurs.

MegaBall - Amiga | Ed Mackey and Al Mackey released the full version of the game MegaBall for the Amiga as freeware, included the source code. MegaBall is a breakout-style game and it was one of the best ShareWare games for the Amiga. The original ADF images are available for the installation of the game.

XLCUS | The web page Games That Weren't has had an interview with Paul Kubiszyn from the game company XLCUS. The company made games for the Commodore C64 in the mid nineties. A few examples of the games that Paul worked on are: Square Scape, Amorphous and MegaForce.

Beep | Beep is a documentary film and book of video game music and sound. This project is a kickstarter project and it will start on October 1st. The finished documentary is planned for March 2016. A few examples of people in the documentary are: Allister Brimble, Chris Huelsbeck, Anders Carlsson, Mike Clarke, Tim Wright, Martin Galway and many more.

BitJam #193 | In this BitJam the Wackee SID Selekta. You can listen to the following music: Jammer - Spirals, _V_ - Phat Beats, celticdesign - SID Nation, Flex - Luminator, Linus - Grandma was a Druglord, Drax - Delusional, Conrad - Intrinsic V2, Wiklund - Euro Trash, MCH - Attitude #14, Wackee - For Those About To Acid (edit), _V_ - Red Sector Inc Circa 1994, Wackee - Oh My God What Have I Done, Zabutom - Storm, Linde - Dbwud, Xiny6581 - Substral Hyperwaves III (original mix), Devilock - Scale of Recreation, Flex - Vandalized Paradize, Scarzix - Starhiker (Director's cut), Hein Holt - Game Player, _V_ - Win a Cookie, Psycho8580 - Little Trip to Nowhere and Jammer - Spirals (reprise). Total playing time: 45:16.

1 MB - C64 | Tomasz Nowak is developing a system that makes it possible to run 16 virtual C64's inside 1 real Commodore 64. The extended memory is divided in 16 block of 64 kB (16 virtual machine), 0.5 kB RAM for program MMU, and 16 memory blocks for the VIC, CPU, zero-page and the hardware stack.

Amiga mixer v1.4 | Amiga mixer is a program for the Amiga that can control your audio. It supports many soundcards: SBLive/SBAudigy, FM801, Envy24HT, Solo-1 and many others. Changes in this version: IDT92HD700/X1000 support, improvements for X1000's hdaudio.audio V6.22, added SOUNDCARD tooltype/arg, German and French language.

Aircraft Patrol 3 - C64 | Aircraft Patrol 3 is a new SEUCK game for the Commodore 64 developed by Roberto Ricioppo. The loader picture is made by Johan Janssen and the music from Richard Bayliss. In the game you are a pilot and you must shoot down the enemy planes and make a safe landing.

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